Kansas legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Kansas HB2230: Enacting the kratom consumer protection act, defining kratom as a food product, prohibiting the distribution and sale of kratom that is adulterated, requiring persons to be at least 21 years of age to purchase such product, establishing civil fines for violations of the act and requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations for the administration of the act
Status: In committee, April 10, 2026
What the bill says
An act concerning food products; regulating the preparation, distribution and sale of kratom products; prohibiting the preparation, distribution and sale of adulterated or contaminated kratom products; establishing fines and penalties; enacting the kratom consumer protection act; requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations to administer the act.
From the introduced text, February 4, 2025:
AN ACT concerning food products; regulating the preparation, distribution and sale of kratom products; prohibiting the preparation, distribution and sale of adulterated or contaminated kratom products; establishing fines and penalties; enacting the kratom consumer protection act; requiring the secretary of agriculture to adopt rules and regulations to administer the act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. Sections 1 through 6, and amendments thereto, shall be known and may be cited as the kratom consumer protection act. Sec. 2. As used in sections 1 through 6, and amendments thereto: (a) "Food" means a food product, food ingredient, dietary ingredient, dietary supplement or beverage for human consumption; (b) "kratom extract" means a food product or dietary ingredient containing any part of the leaf of the plant mitragyna speciosa that has been extracted or concentrated in order to provide more standardized product content; (c) "kratom product" means a food product or dietary ingredient containing any part of the leaf of the plant mitragyna speciosa or an extract thereof and is manufactured as a powder, capsule, tablet, beverage or other edible form; (d) "processor" means a person that sells, prepares, manufactures, distributes or maintains kratom products or advertises, represents or holds itself out as selling, preparing or maintaining kratom products; (e) "retailer" means any person that sells, …